Sorry to yet again reply to my own message. The issue remains but until
just now, the messages were deleted if I switched to another
mailbox/smart mailbox.
Which made me remember that in a mail on the 25th September 2020 Benny
told me about
defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmAutomaticExpungeBehavior -string
"mailboxSwitch"
(which is not listed on
https://manual.mailmate-app.com/hidden_preferences)
The other value is “Never”
I checked my MailMate hidden defaults and there was no entity called
MmAutomaticExpungeBehavior but I clearly had set it in Sept 2020 and it
must have been set as that was the behaviour I was seeing.
Setting it to “Never” or indeed back to "mailboxSwitch" makes no
difference, the mails are deleted immediately after being marked as
deleted because I have the (also not documented on the Hidden
preferences page)
MmDeleteBehavior -string "markAsDeleted"
I think these preferences must have disappeared when a build removed the
Experimental 2.0 preference in the General pane. But the documentation
suggests this was AGES ago. But I refer to it back in September 2020 so
I must have seen and switched it on.
(I have of course restarted MailMate in between changes of the defaults)
Anyone else got any clue what is going on!
Raza
On 25 Aug 2021, at 13:20, Raza Rizvi wrote:
As an update to this - the expected normal behaviour has returned.
Though I am conscious of changing nothing in MailMate or fast mail.
Deleted mails are shown in MailMate as deleted (red dot) and they are
not being automatically expunged.
All very mysterious!
Raza
On 16 Aug 2021, at 16:32, Raza Rizvi wrote:
Hello,
Usually in my mail clients I see deleted mails either as struck
through or in red, pending me to get round to running an Expunge.
In MailMate I used to see such deleted mails with a red dot marker. I
noticed a little while ago that mails deleted on a Tuffmail account
appeared to be deleted immediately/nearly immediately. I figured this
was a change in the handling of such messages on the Fastmail side as
they started their path to ceasing operations in Jan 2022.
Now I am noticing this with FastMail (to whom I am moving my message
store). This suggests it is something I am doing wrong.
I can’t see anything in MailMate or the FastMail preferences that
controls the immediate deletion or otherwise of IMAP flagged deleted
emails (as you see in the IMAP settings for Google accounts).
It happens regardless of whether I use the bin icon or the delete
key. Mails do not appear in the Deleted Messages folder within
MailMate.
I can’t see a relevant hidden preference I might have accidentally
toggled. What am I missing?
Raza
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